WASHINGTON (AP)  The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration immigration policies and a record number of deportations last year.

The policy change, announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who attend college or have served in the military.

The move comes in an election year in which the Hispanic vote could be critical in tossup states like Colorado, Nevada and Florida that could go either Republican or Democratic. While President Barack Obama enjoys support from a majority of Hispanic voters, Latino enthusiasm for the president has been tempered by the slow economic recovery, his inability to win congressional support for a broad overhaul of immigration laws and by his administration's aggressive deportation policy.

Activists opposing his deportation policies last week mounted a hunger strike at an Obama campaign office in Denver, and other protests were planned for this weekend.

Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' annual conference next week in Florida. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.

There are counter-measures available inclluding impechment hearings and refunding. Or even - how about this one - why not at least one member of congress express some outrage? Can we even get that much out of these wimps on our side?

He actually had the gall to say he had to do this because the Republicans kept blocking his immigration bill.

I've actually heard illegals say, "Well, I HAD to come in illegally. You Americans make it too hard to come in legally." It's like saying, "I HAD to break into your house to rob you. It's your fault. You drove me to it by having that lock on your door."

“I HAD to break into your house to rob you. It’s your fault for having all those nice things like a TV and a laptop and an iPad and iPhone. I HAD to rape your wife, because mine weighs 200 pounds and has a moustache. You drove me to do all these things!”

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posted on 06/15/2012 12:25:27 PM PDT
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

There are countermeasures available including impeachment hearings and de-funding. Or even - how about this one - why not at least one member of congress express some outrage? Can we even get that much out of these wimps on our side?

800,000 my @$$! It would be “cruel” to deport their “parents” who brought them here against their will. And then there are those uncles, aunts and cousins who want to be here to watch them “graduate” or take their big G.E.D. test. Of course, we can’t leave out their poor, grandparents still “back home” who haven’t seen them in years and “miss them very much”. What a coup! The communist ‘RAT party is going to be busy registering a whole new crop of millions of ‘RAT voters requiring freebies paid for by the American taxpayers. Americans are the big losers here. Foreign nationals are the big winners.

My thoughts: This is not really about Immigration. This is about setting a precedent to rule by executive order ahead of the SC decision. My prediction is he is setting the stage for explaining that he had to act in order to protect health care for all.

Bill Clinton got the ball rolling on this with motor voter.
When you get a drivers licence, you get registered to vote.
Illegal alien? No Problemo.
Couple a years back, I went to renew my licence.
The place was packed with people spilling outside.
I was the only english speaker in the crowd.

Motor Voter was a knife in the back of America. It is required that anyone getting a license, food stamps or free medical assistance be asked if they want to register to vote. EVERY TIME THEY APPLY! What do they expect the illegals to say, “NO?” Motor voter needs to be repealed.

Which brings up another badboy Obama issue. A patriotic, natural born citizen would always protect the sovereignty of his country. Not with Obama though, in his own words, he stated in his Berlin, Germany speech, he is a "world citizen" among many others he has held or still holds.

I have thought the same thing. A citizen who loves the nation would never do this even if his political advisers told him it was the only way to win reelection.

A person who loved the United States would say it is not right, it is against the law, it endangers the sovereignty of the nation, it stomps on the principles of the rule-of-law and it pisses on the Constitution. He would say it violates my principles and I won’t do it.

White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 (if the comment line is not working, please call the White House switchboard: 202-456-1414).

On hold now, and I will ask permission to record my call.

I got through!

I was very polite, and asked for permission to record my call...I was put on the line with a supervisor, who asked why, and told them for personal reasons. I was denied, then the female supervisor on the line refused to identify themselves even by first name, and I made my polite comment. At this point the telephone connection was disconnected followed by a dial tone.

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posted on 06/15/2012 1:42:33 PM PDT
by dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

Who, what entity is going to “process” all these 800,000? (And don’t we just love these arbitrary numbers ... )

What are the rules after that? Do those with “work permits” get those fancy new ID numbers that aren’t really citizen social security numbers, yet enable them to file for tax refunds? Oh, because now that they’re “legal” to work ..of COURSE they pay taxes ...and thus, are “qualified” to obtain refunds!

Come the hell ON — this is literally going to lead to the total RAPING, LOOTING AND PILLAGING of the American treasury!!

I finally did get through. A nice woman asked me for my comments and I told her that the president is not above our Constitution or Congress and that what he did is illegal and he needs to be impeached. She said, “thank you”, and sighed. I hope to heck they’re getting hammered with calls. From her tone, I think the White Hut is having a bad day, and WELL DESERVED.

It’s too late now. I’ve been out all day and I don’t understand this permission to record the call. I imagine it has something to do with holding them accountable. Can you explain the reasoning please, at the risk of me sounding incredibly stupid? Erghhh.

I won’t call the bastards since when I did a long time before now I got on a mailing list. It makes me feel filthy to get anything from them. Like it would to lie down with a whore or something like that.

I finally went to the postmaster and got them to stop delivering from the whitey hut, something about unsolicited mail or other.

Never mind where Obama was born. He was not brought up with American values but rather with Communist/Marxist ones. These are the core values he will seek to impose on America. Political correctness has allowed him to advance his goals most admirably.

I have come to believe we have been unfair to Obama (wait read on)....Obama is not a “Marxist” he is in fact a RACIST! Every thing he has done as President is to minimize and denigrate white male Anglo Saxon Christians. Obama's policies are anti-family and have dimished the father and husband as a bread winner by destroying their opportunities for work. Mean while he attacks Christian organizations the actually follow the bible, like the Catholic church, by claiming they are deny woman their rights to kill a fetus. He has consistently maximized the importance of gays, refuses to prosecute black racists and pander to the Laraza crowd. He is no friend of the predominately white Jews, who follow him like sheep. Not unlike Stalin and the Communists, Obama needs white Jews to appear legit, but will dump them first chance he gets. Of course as history has shown time and again they will be the last to know. Blacks who have suffered more under this President than Bush can kiss any hope of employment down the toilet with a million plus illegals entering the work force. Now you may say this is all pandering to his base and you would be wrong. He has the racist gay, black, Hispanic and reform Jew vote already locked in. This current act will it bring the independents rushing to his cause and the 800,000 plus will not be citizens in time to really impact the vote in November. The real questions is whether Romney is a self-loathing white Mormon a will he pick a pro-Laraza Rubio?

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